Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 141, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1918 — CIRCUS TRAIN IN BIG WRECK [ARTICLE]

CIRCUS TRAIN IN BIG WRECK

OVER A HUNDRED MEMBERS OF SHOW TROUPE ARE KILLED. Word wu received here today of * fearful wreck between Gary and Hammond in which it is reported' that more than one hundred people lost their lives. The Wallace-HagenbackCircus was on it* way from Gary to Hammond when a fast western bound solid Pullman train on the Michigan Central road ran into the circus train, wrecking four of the coaches in which the show people were sleeping. • It is reported that the engineer on the Pullman train ran by a number of lights and crashed into the curcus train. The circus showed at Michigan City Friday and was to have exhibited at Hammond today. Reports have reached here that the number killed and injured will reach more than two hundred and that the hospitals of Hammond have been filled with the injured. Also that many of the animals belonging to the show had been fre«4 by the wreck.